Industries Served

Restaurants

Water filtration or treatment is essential to protect your valuable kitchen equipment, enhance the flavor of your food and beverages, and ensure sanitary conditions in your restaurant. Guthrie & Frey Commercial Water Services can design and build a system that meets the needs of your dining establishment.

We can design, install, and build systems that include solutions for restaurants in Wisconsin, including:

Water Softening: Eliminating hard water scale for spotless dishes and help your kitchen equipment have a longer life.
Taste & Odor Filtration: Removing chlorine and other contaminants for better-tasting beverages and food.
Reverse Osmosis: Providing better, more pure water for ice machines and coffee brewers.
Sediment & Particulate Removal: Protecting plumbing and appliances from wear and tear.

Water Treatment Needs for Restaurants

Water treatment needs vary widely in the restaurant and hospitality industry, depending on the challenges of your local water supply. Guthrie and Frey Commercial Water are experts in Wisconsin’s water supply, whether your restaurant is in Kenosha, or in Milwaukee.

Restauranteurs use water treatment and filtration for:

Beverage Prep: Improving taste and clarity in coffee, tea, soda, and ice machines.
Dishwashing & Glassware: Getting spotless, streak-free dishes, glasses, and flatware.
Boilers & Steamers: Protecting steam tables, ovens, and hot water heaters from scale buildup.
Ingredient Water: For cooking, baking, and preparing food items (preventing off-flavors).
Potable Drinking Water: Ensuring clean, safe, and great-tasting water for guests.

Common Water Treatment Methods for Restaurants

Some of the most common and effective water treatment methods for restaurants are:

Hard water, common in many areas of Wisconsin, leads to scale buildup on heating elements and inside pipes. This reduces the efficiency and lifespan of expensive equipment like dishwashers, steamers, ice machines, and water heaters, leading to costly repairs and higher energy bills. A commercial water softener removes these hard minerals, resulting in sparkling clean dishes, more efficient equipment, and reduced detergent use.
Filtration is the first line of defense. Sediment filters remove suspended solids that can clog equipment and leave residue. Carbon filters are great for removing chlorine, chloramines, and other organic compounds that cause unpleasant tastes and odors in drinking water, ice, coffee, tea, and even alter the flavor of cooked foods.
RO systems push water through a semi-permeable membrane to remove up to 99% of dissolved solids, including minerals, salts, and chemicals. This “blank slate” water is perfect for ensuring crystal-clear ice, enhancing the true flavor of coffee and tea, and preventing spotting on glassware.
For an added layer of microbial protection without chemicals, UV systems use UV light to kill bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms.